{"id":192115,"date":"2015-06-30T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=192115"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:41:51","slug":"guide-to-museums-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/guide-to-museums-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Museums in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-186101\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Estrategias_NOVO-a.jpg\" alt=\"Estrategias_NOVO a\" width=\"290\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Estrategias_NOVO-a.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Estrategias_NOVO-a-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Estrategias_NOVO-a-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Daniel Bueno<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of the 468 museums and centers of science that exist in Latin America and the Caribbean, half (272) are situated in Brazil.\u00a0 This finding appears in the <em><i>Guide to Science Museums and Centers in Latin America and the Caribbean <\/i><\/em>launched in May 2015 during the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Congress sponsored by the Science and Technology Network to Latin America and the Caribbean (RedPop) in Medellin, Colombia.\u00a0 The guide provides information about the history and locations of museums and centers in the region, including botanical gardens, aquariums, planetariums, and zoos.\u00a0 Also included are little-known facts about some of them, such as that Mexico\u2019s Chiapas Museum was built in a former prison.\u00a0 \u201cThe number of museums and centers is larger than we expected, but still not enough,\u201d says Luisa Massarani, director of RedPop and a researcher at the Museum of Life maintained by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), who coordinated the guide.\u00a0 She says it is expected that the guide will make the museums more visible and serve as reference for researchers.\u00a0 Portuguese and Spanish editions of the guide are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpop.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">RedPop website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guide provides information on Latin American and Caribbean museums","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-192115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192115"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=192115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}